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Iran Focus
 Brussels,
Dec. 24 – The Belgian Senate adopted unanimously on Friday a resolution
urging the European Union to “reconsider” the terror label placed on the
main Iranian opposition group Mojahedin-e Khalq (MeK or PMOI).
“In the absence of a precise definition of terrorism, branding Iranian
opposition groups as terrorist for their struggle against a regime which is
responsible for systematic violations of human rights must be avoided”, the
resolution read.
Senators called on the Belgian government to “reconsider the listing of the
PMOI as a terrorist organisation” within the framework
of the European Union and on the bases of relevant information available.
The resolution also urged the government to “strongly condemn” remarks by
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
threatening the existence of the state of Israel and denying the Holocaust
as a “myth”, and called for the Belgian ambassador to Tehran to be
recalled.
The resolution expressed deep concern over Tehran’s human rights violations, citing
public hangings, brutal punishments, arbitrary arrests, physical and
psychological torture in prisons, assassination of dissidents, and
discrimination against women, persecution of religious and ethnic
minorities, and violations of freedom of speech and conscience.
The resolution had been adopted earlier in the day by the Senate Foreign
Affaires Committee.
In a statement faxed to news agencies, Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi hailed the
resolution as the “voice of Belgian and European people’s conscience”.
“The policy of appeasing the clerical regime in Iran and inclusion of the
People’s Mojahedin in the terror list has no
legitimacy and is opposed by the peoples of European countries and should
be ended”, Rajavi said.
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